pretty fucked up that four of the five English vowels are diphthongs
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Idk English is so far down the list in terms of vowel sound complexity it may almost just as well be Arabic.
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Idk man I have been with English vowels
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it's absolutely wild how:
- purred
- heard
- bird
all involve exactly the same vowel sound
English spelling is nonsense
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English is so inconsistent I'm glad I didn't have to 'learn' it
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Hungarian has 14 vowels*, omg so complex 
*all pronounced exactly the same way every time without fail
English only has 5 vowels*, simples 
*pronounced 100 different ways; spelling is of little help
*all pronounced exactly the same way every time without fail
English only has 5 vowels*, simples
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The wages of sin*.
* global empire and mass naturalization of loan words